A Phase 2 interventional study of INCB099280 in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma, sponsored by Incyte Corporation. Terminated at 77 sites in 15 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-20.
Sponsored by Incyte Corporation · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
This was a strategic business decision. There were no safety concerns contributing to this decision.
This study is being conducted to determine the safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy of INCB099280 in participants with advanced Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
Incyte Corporation is the lead sponsor of 288 studies on the registry; 34 are open to participants now.
Of its 149 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 95 (64%) have results posted.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Other protocol-defined Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria may apply.
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.
The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.
The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.
“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.
Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.
PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.
PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Measurable disease
The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.
The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
RECIST
The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.
“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ECOG performance status
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Life expectancy
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Leptomeningeal disease
Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.
Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
PD-1, PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors
PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.
PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Clinically significant
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Autoimmune disease
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Allogeneic and autologous transplant
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Live vaccines
Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Participants will receive INCB099280 dose 1 twice daily (BID) for up to 2 years.
Drug: INCB099280
Participants will receive INCB099280 dose 2 twice daily (BID) for up to 2 years.
Drug: INCB099280
Participants will receive INCB099280 dose 3 twice daily (BID) for up to 2 years.
Drug: INCB099280
Participants will receive INCB099280 dose selected from Part 1 twice daily (BID) for up to 2 years.
Drug: INCB099280
Administered as specified in the treatment arm description.
Objective response rate (ORR)
Defined as the percentage of participants with a best overall response of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR), as determined by the blinded independent central review (BICR) according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) v1.1 or composite criteria for metastatic cSCC and per World Health Organization (WHO) criteria for locally advanced cSCC.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Number of participants with Treatment-emergent Adverse Events (TEAEs)
Defined as any Adverse event either reported for the first time or worsening of a pre-existing event after first dose of study drug up to 90 days after the last dose of study drug or until the start of new anticancer therapy, whichever occurs first.
Time frame: Up to 2 years 3 months
Number of participants with TEAEs leading to dose modification or discontinuation
Number of participants with TEAEs leading to dose modification or discontinuation.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Disease Control Rate (DCR)
Defined as the percentage of participants with the best overall response of CR or PR, or stable disease (SD), after a minimum of 15 weeks following the initiation of study treatment as determined by the BICR per RECIST v1.1 or composite criteria for metastatic cSCC and WHO criteria for locally advanced cSCC.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Duration Of Response (DOR)
Defined as the time from the earliest date of confirmed CR or PR to the earliest date of disease progression, as determined by the BICR according to RECIST v1.1 or composite criteria for metastatic cSCC and WHO criteria for locally advanced cSCC or death due to any cause if occurring sooner than progression.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Time to Response (TTR)
Defined as the time from the date of first dose to the earliest date of confirmed CR or PR as determined by the BICR according to RECIST v1.1 or composite criteria for metastatic cSCC and WHO criteria for locally advanced cSCC.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Progression-free survival (PFS)
Defined as the time from the date of first dose to the earliest date of disease progression as determined by the BICR according to RECIST v1.1 or composite criteria for metastatic cSCC and WHO criteria for locally advanced cSCC or death due to any cause if occurring sooner than progression.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Overall Survival (OS)
Defined as the time from the date of first dose to death due to any cause.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
INCB099280 pharmacokinetic (PK) in Plasma
INCB099280 concentration in plasma
Time frame: Pre dose and 1, 2 and 6 hours post dose on Cycle 1 Day 1 and Cycle 2 Day 1. Pre dose every other cycle until Cycle 11 Day 1 (Cycle 3 Day 1, Cycle 5 Day 1, Cycle 7 Day 1, Cycle 9 Day 1 and Cycle 11 Day 1) (each cycle is 28 days)
Plan to share: Yes — Incyte shares data with qualified external researchers after a research proposal is submitted. These requests are reviewed and approved by a review panel on the basis of scientific merit. All data provided is anonymized to respect the privacy of patients who have participated in the trial in line with applicable laws and regulations. The trial data availability is according to the criteria and process described on https://www.incyte.com/our-company/compliance-and-transparency
Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan
Time frame: Data will be shared after the primary publication or 2 years after the study has ended for market authorized products and indications.
Access criteria: Data from eligible studies will be shared with qualified researchers according to the criteria and process described in the Data Sharing section of the www.incyteclinicaltrials.com website. For approved requests, the researchers will be granted access to anonymized data under the terms of a data sharing agreement.
Data sharing details ↗ · www.incyte.com
This was a strategic business decision. There were no safety concerns contributing to this decision.
This was a strategic business decision. There were no safety concerns contributing to this decision.
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Studies of the drug tested here: PD-L1 Inhibitor INCB099280